Step 7: Resize And Reposition The Image With Free Transform

Press Ctrl+T (Win) / Command+T (Mac) on your keyboard to quickly bring up Photoshop's Free Transform box and handles around the image, then move and/or resize it as needed so it appears where you want it in front of the screen. To move the image, click anywhere inside the boundaries of the Free Transform box and, with your mouse button still held down, drag the image around inside the document. Don't click on the small target symbol in the center, though, or you'll move the target symbol, not the image. To resize the image, hold down your Shift key and drag any of the corner handles (the little squares). Holding the Shift key as you drag will constrain the shape of the image so you don't stretch and distort it as you're resizing it.

In my case, I'm going make my image just a little bit larger so more of the jet skier's head is positioned above the tv screen and the front of the jet ski itself extends out the right side of the screen. These are the two areas I'll be using in a moment to create the illusion that the jet ski is jumping out of the tv. When you're done, press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) to accept the changes and exit out of the Free Transform command:

Step 8: Select The Areas That Will Extend Outside Of The Screen

Use your favorite selection tool (Lasso Tool, Pen Tool, etc) to select the area(s) of the image that will extend out beyond the boundaries of the screen. As I mentioned, I'll want the top of the jet skier and the front of the jet ski to appear as if they're popping out of the tv, so I need to select those two areas. There's no need to select anything that already fits inside the screen since the layer mask already includes those areas. All we need to select are the areas that will extend beyond it. When you're done, you should see selection outlines around the areas:

Step 9: Turn The Layer Mask Back On And Set The Opacity Back To 100%

Hold down your Shift key once again and click on the layer mask preview thumbnail in the Layers panel to turn the layer mask back on. Then change the opacity of the layer back to 100%:

The image will reappear within the boundaries of the screen and only the outline of the area(s) we just selected will remain:

Step 10: Select The Layer Mask

We're going to add our selections to the layer mask. To do that, we'll first need the layer mask selected, so click on its preview thumbnail in the Layers panel to select it (no need to hold down the Shift key this time). A white highlight border will appear around the thumbnail letting you know that the mask is selected:

Step 11: Fill The Selections With White

Go up to the Edit menu at the top of the screen and choose the Fill command:

When the Fill dialog box appears, set the Use option in the top half of the dialog box to White:

Click OK to exit out of the Fill dialog box, and Photoshop fills the selected areas of the layer mask with white. Press Ctrl+D (Win) / Command+D (Mac) to remove the selection outlines since we know longer need them. If we look at the layer mask preview thumbnail again, we can see the new areas that we've filled with white extending out of the original screen shape:

With the areas now white on the layer mask, those areas of the image appear visible in the document, giving us our "screen jump" effect:

And there we have it!

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